Frontier Airlines adds Detroit-to-D.C. nonstop flight

Frontier Airlines has added another flight this year at Detroit Metropolitan Airport—this one billed as an “ultra-low” fare service from Washington Dulles International Airport, beginning on Sept. 8.

Detroit is one of 14 destinations to which the Denver-based airline announced it will offer nonstop flights from Dulles, according to a news release.

This is the second new flight that Frontier will add this year at the Detroit airport. On April 29, the airline began offering a flight from Detroit to Wilmington, Del.

It follows a wave of new flight and airline additions to the Detroit airport for 2014.

Other new flights include daily nonstop service between Detroit and Kansas City International Airport beginning Aug. 7 and daily nonstop service between Detroit and Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport from May 22 to Nov. 1 on Miramar, Fla.-based Spirit Airlines. In addition, a second daily nonstop flight to London is starting June 1 on Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines Inc.

Seattle-based Alaska Airlines will become the second new carrier, meanwhile, to add service to Detroit Metro this year, with a nonstop daily flight between Detroit and Seattle starting Sept. 4, after New York-based JetBlue Airways Corp. began offering three flights a day from Detroit to Boston in March.

Frontier said introductory fares for flights to Detroit and the other 14 airports from Dulles could be as low as $39 each way until May 17 for flights booked through Nov. 19.